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scintillator
[ sin-tl-ey-ter ]
noun
- a phosphor capable of producing scintillations.
scintillator
/ ˈsɪntɪˌleɪtə /
noun
- physics a phosphor that produces scintillations
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Origin of scintillator1
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Example Sentences
One type of detector that works outside the lab contains a type of chemical known as a scintillator.
These tubes could be used to pick up either Cherenkov light or scintillator light.
Liquid scintillator detectors are still common — used in the NOvA neutrino experiment at Fermilab, for example — as are detectors made of solid plastic strips with scintillator mixed in.
Scintillator detectors began to prove their worth in 1956 when a tank of liquid scintillator was used to discover the neutrino — once thought to be entirely undetectable.
Over three hundred scintillator effects were worked out and this feature of fireless fireworks was widely varied.
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